“Trump’s a Shmuck But I Like His Policies” is Not Acceptable

A distant family member said this the other day who is a very pleasant woman but defiantly conservative. Unfortunately, she and her conservative husband raised a son to also be conservative and while all three of these people are intelligent, I have trouble wrestling with their morality.

I will fight the Left on intellectual dogmatism to the furthest ends of the Earth and that does mean trying as hard as possible to provide a space for Conservatives to express their views and be heard.

However, there comes a line when Conservatives are essentially evil and while I would rarely condone depriving Conservatives of a voice, but I struggle with where the line is on protecting them. If, for example, Conservatives wanted to unleash a bombing raid on the city of Houston to ensure that Texas remains red (and honestly, is this that much of a stretch, the way these guys are going) through mass murder, can we really be ok with that?

If Conservatives react strongly to equating their action with evil, perhaps they should re-examine what the definition of that word is.

I’d argue that Trump has broken all seven deadly sins or many of the commandments, or whatever moral ideology you subscribe to. Let’s see: There’s rape, the Muslim ban, reversing visas to Cuba, the transgender military ban (and I’m as critical of the transgender movement as anyone), seeking to ruin and defame the lives of all the people who have a political agenda than you…